Movie Director Taika Waititi Tells Apple to 'Fix Those Keyboards' at Oscars

[polaris20]

Where do you see that? I’m not seeing it.

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No one is saying this.

It makes sense for some to downplay the issues because not everyone is a professional writer. For Taika Waititi, it's hard to overstate how serious the issue is. That being said, if you don't write for a living, the severity is greatly diminished.
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If it's your livelihood, it's not overblown. Also, Waititi is not complaining about a defect, he's complaining about a conscious design decision.

Keyboard issue is overblown. Yeah I said it. Butterfly switches are fine.

 

[cmaier]

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Yeah, but the good news is that the thread isn’t overflowing with such denials for once.

 

[polaris20]

Yeah, but the good news is that the thread isn’t overflowing with such denials for once.

True, I'll agree with that.

 

[LuciusWrong]

Excellent!!!! Apple needs a lot more public shaming. Bring it on.
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Those arrogant dopes don't give a damn unfortunately.

It appears he is complaining about all apple keyboards since like 2010? The principle point of his objection is about non-broken keyboards having poor ergonomics. A Lenovo has probably 5x the key travel, which is likely what he means by the "PC" references.

I would love a macbook with mechanical keys; i would love a full featured macbook in tablet form, without keyboard...so i could choose my own keyboard!

The 16" keyboard is not breaking, which is good, but also not ergonomic. It is fine for casual use, but not ideal for a writer who writes all day. I finally upgraded after 6 years, but i prefer the keyboard and track pad of the old 2013.

 

[PostApple2016BrainWash]

My God, how is Tim Cook going to help Apple revolution the Augmented Reality device (iGlass) if it keeps on screw up things like that and take years to fix one product and another half a year to fix rest of it?🤦‍♂️🏻

 

[PickUrPoison]

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You said fanboys 😁

If you had said, “there’s one in every crowd” I would have given you a like 🙂

 

[ignatius345]

not sure how your personal experience supports counter-argument with what i said. but good for you, i guess.
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Go google up the estimates. Apple sells about ~20 million Macs per year. Butterfly mechanism was introduced in 2015. 4 years *20 = ~80 million. Subtract iMacs and non-butterfly switch Macs, so maybe about ~50million. Want to be conservative? Fine, 25 million butterfly-switch devices. Find me a million users that are complaining about it. Then we'll reach the 5% average defect rate and at that point we can consider it a problem.

But go ahead and rely on your meaningful 5-person (6 including you, i guess) data point to speak for millions of customers. I'm glad you're not an analyst.

You can do whatever creative math you want, but the fact remains: Apple created a special warranty just for these keyboards. That costs them millions of dollars to do, and is an embarrassing thing to have to do in the first place. If your theory held even a drop of water, then why would they do this?

Hey, do you remember when the last generation of scissor-switch keyboards first started coming out on MacBooks? Remember how everyone was sending them back to Apple because they were failing? Or how they had to do a special warranty to fix them? Oh right, you don't. Because it didn't happen. Those keyboards just worked, and they're out there continuing to work. In fact, more or less every single computer OEM out there copied the design immediately because it was rock-solid and reliable. I'm typing on one right now and it feels ****ing great.

But if you want to go hoarde a few Macs with butterfly keyboards, I'm sure they'll be hitting eBay over the coming year or so